“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.”

— Cyril Connolly , book The Unquiet Grave

Part II: Te Palinure Petens (p. 58)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)

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British author 1903–1974

Anthony Horowitz book Scorpia Rising

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“You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

“Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.”

Robert Morley (1908–1992) English actor

Explaining why he never tried to lose weight.
Toledo Blade, Aug 20, 1978 http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19780820&id=UDBPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fgIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6371,746427

“Most of the Vogue girls are so thin, tremendously thin, because Miss Anna don't like fat people.”

André Leon Talley (1948–2022) American journalist

[United Press International, Vogue fat comment raises group's ire, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2005-09-19, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_375745.html, 2007-04-24]